The Toronto Maple Leafs introduce new sweaters of blue and white, changing from the former green logo on white uniform. They are the first team in the NHL to have a set of white uniforms and a set of dark uniforms.[1][2]

The Chicago Black Hawks fired coach Pete Muldoon before the season, and coaching was split between Hugh Lehman and Barney Stanley. The Black Hawks finished last, recording only seven wins. The firing of Muldoon prompted him to publicly put "a curse" (known as the "curse of the Muldoons") on the Black Hawks, stating that the team would never win the NHL pennant. The Black Hawks would not place first in the NHL until the 1966–67 season.[4]

The Ottawa Senators, the smallest market in the league, were affected by franchises in the U.S. and sold their star right wing Hooley Smith to the Montreal Maroons for $22,500 plus the return of right wing Punch Broadbent, followed by the sale of defenceman Edwin Gorman to Toronto.

Howie Morenz, the NHL's top drawing card, dominated the scoring race and was runaway winner of the Hart Trophy. He scored 33 goals and led the league in assists as well. Despite Ottawa's financial difficulties, Alex Connell, Ottawa goalkeeper, set an all-time record with six consecutive shutouts. His record shutout sequence reached 460 minutes and 59 seconds without being scored on.[5]

Toronto, now the Maple Leafs, showed power early on and it looked like they would make the playoffs. However, injuries to Hap Day and Bill Carson doomed the team, and the Leafs sagged to fourth, out of the playoffs for the third straight year. It would take another 80 years until the Leafs missed the playoffs three straight times again.

Thanks to the great play of Eddie Shore and goaltender Hal Winkler, who tied with Connell for the leader in shutouts with 15, the Boston Bruins finished first for the first time in the American Division, while the Canadiens, who were running away with the Canadian Division at mid-season, slumped after an injury to Pit Lepine but managed to hold onto first place at season's end.

The circus knocked the Rangers out of Madison Square Garden, and all games would be played in the Montreal Forum, even though Boston offered to host the Rangers. The Maroons won game one 2–0, with Nels Stewart and goaltender Clint Benedict the stars.

Drama took over in game two when Nels Stewart fired a hard shot that struck New York goaltender Lorne Chabot in the eye. He could not continue, and the Rangers needed a goaltender. However, when coach Eddie Gerard refused to let the Rangers use Alex Connell or minor league goaltender Hugh McCormick, Lester Patrick, Ranger coach, in anger, decided to don the pads himself.[5] The Rangers then body-blasted any Maroon who got near Patrick. Bill Cook scored, putting the Rangers ahead 1–0, but Nels Stewart was not to be denied and scored, tying the game. In overtime, Frank Boucher got the winner for the Rangers and they carried Patrick, tears streaming down his eyes, off the ice. Patrick stopped 17 of 18 shots he faced.[5]

Joe "Red Light" Miller, New York Americans goalie, was allowed to take Chabot's place in goal and he played well in a 2–0 loss in game three. However, Frank Boucher starred as the Rangers took the next two games, and the Stanley Cup. Drama almost took place in the final game when Miller was badly cut on a shot, but he was able to continue. The crowd became unruly at times and referee Mike Rodden took abuse for disallowed goals by Maroon players. Even NHL president Frank Calder was a target of some fans for not intervening. The Rangers became the second American team to win the Cup and the first NHL American team to do so. In addition, the Rangers became the first team to win the Stanley Cup at the Montreal Forum which was only repeated in 1989

The terms for awarding the O'Brien Cup and the Prince of Wales Trophy were changed to honour the top finisher in each of the NHL's divisions. Howie Morenz won the Hart Trophy, the first of three times he would be named most valuable player. Frank Boucher won the Lady Byng, the first of seven times he would win the award. George Hainsworth won the Vezina Trophy for the second consecutive year.

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National Hockey League
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Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the playoff champion at the end of each season. At its inception, the NHL had four teams—all in Canada, the league expanded to the United States in 1924, when the Boston Bruins joined, and has since consisted of American and Canadian teams. After a labour-management dispute that led to the cancellation of the entire 2004–05 season, in 2009, the NHL enjoyed record highs in terms of sponsorships, attendance, and television audiences. The league draws many highly skilled players from all over the world, canadians have historically constituted the majority of the players in the league, with an increasing percentage of American and European players in recent seasons. The National Hockey League was established in 1917 as the successor to the National Hockey Association, founded in 1909, the NHA began play one year later with seven teams in Ontario and Quebec, and was one of the first major leagues in professional ice hockey. Realizing the NHA constitution left them unable to force Livingstone out, the four teams voted instead to suspend the NHA, frank Calder was chosen as its first president, serving until his death in 1943. The Bulldogs were unable to play, and the remaining owners created a new team in Toronto, the first games were played on December 19,1917. The Montreal Arena burned down in January 1918, causing the Wanderers to cease operations, the NHL replaced the NHA as one of the leagues that competed for the Stanley Cup, which was an interleague competition back then. Toronto won the first NHL title, and then defeated the Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association for the 1918 Stanley Cup. The Canadiens won the title in 1919, however their Stanley Cup Final against the PCHAs Seattle Metropolitans was abandoned as a result of the Spanish Flu epidemic. Montreal in 1924 won their first Stanley Cup as a member of the NHL, the Hamilton Tigers, won the regular season title in 1924–25 but refused to play in the championship series unless they were given a C$200 bonus. The league refused and declared the Canadiens the league champion after defeated the Toronto St. Patricks in the semi-final. Montreal was then defeated by the Victoria Cougars of the Western Canada Hockey League for the 1925 Stanley Cup and it was the last time a non-NHL team won the trophy, as the Stanley Cup became the de facto NHL championship in 1926 after the WCHL ceased operation. The National Hockey League embarked on rapid expansion in the 1920s, adding the Montreal Maroons, the Bruins were the first American team in the league. The New York Americans began play in 1925 after purchasing the assets of the Hamilton Tigers, the New York Rangers were added in 1926. The Chicago Black Hawks and Detroit Cougars were also added after the league purchased the assets of the defunct WCHL, a group purchased the Toronto St. Patricks in 1927 and immediately renamed them the Maple Leafs. The first NHL All-Star Game was held in 1934 to benefit Ace Bailey, the second was held in 1937 in support of Howie Morenzs family when he died of a coronary embolism after breaking his leg during a game

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Ice hockey
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Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponents net to score points. Ice hockey teams usually consist of six each, one goaltender. A fast-paced, physical sport, ice hockey is most popular in areas of North America, Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity. In North America, the National Hockey League is the highest level for mens hockey, the Kontinental Hockey League is the highest league in Russia and much of Eastern Europe. The International Ice Hockey Federation is the governing body for international ice hockey. The IIHF manages international tournaments and maintains the IIHF World Ranking, worldwide, there are ice hockey federations in 74 countries. Ice hockey is believed to have evolved from simple stick and ball games played in the 18th and 19th century United Kingdom and these games were brought to North America and several similar winter games using informal rules were developed, such as shinny and ice polo. The contemporary sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, some characteristics of that game, such as the length of the ice rink and the use of a puck, have been retained to this day. Amateur ice hockey began in the 1880s, and professional ice hockey originated around 1900. The Stanley Cup, emblematic of ice hockey club supremacy, was first awarded in 1893 to recognize the Canadian amateur champion, in international competitions, the national teams of six countries predominate, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States. Of the 69 medals awarded all-time in mens competition at the Olympics, in the annual Ice Hockey World Championships,177 of 201 medals have been awarded to the six nations. In Russia and the Ukraine, where hockey can also refer to bandy, the name hockey has no clear origin. The English historian and biographer John Strype did not use the word hockey when he translated the proclamation in 1720, the 1573 Statute of Galway banned a sport called hokie—the hurling of a little ball with sticks or staves. A form of this word was thus being used in the 16th century, though much removed from its current usage. According to the Austin Hockey Association, the word derives from the Scots Gaelic puc or the Irish poc. The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hurley is always called a puck. Stick-and-ball games date back to pre-Christian times, in Europe, these games included the Irish game of hurling, the closely related Scottish game of shinty and versions of field hockey. IJscolf, a game resembling colf on a surface, was popular in the Low Countries between the Middle Ages and the Dutch Golden Age. It was played with a curved bat, a wooden or leather ball

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Montreal Canadiens
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The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the clubs official name is le Club de hockey Canadien. The team is referred to in English and French as the Habs. French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens, Le Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, La Sainte-Flanelle, Le Tricolore, Les Glorieux, Les Habitants, Le CH and Le Grand Club. Founded in 1909, the Canadiens are the longest continuously operating professional ice hockey team worldwide, the franchise is one of the Original Six teams, a description used for the teams that made up the NHL from 1942 until the 1967 expansion. The teams championship season in 1992–93 was the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, the Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times than any other franchise. They have won 24 Stanley Cups,22 of them since 1927, on a percentage basis, as of 2014, the franchise has won 25. Since 1996, the Canadiens have played their games at Centre Bell. The team previously played at the Montreal Forum which housed the team for seven decades and all, the Canadiens were founded by J. Ambrose OBrien on December 4,1909, as a charter member of the National Hockey Association, the forerunner to the National Hockey League. It was to be the team of the community in Montreal, composed of francophone players. The teams first season was not a success, as they placed last, after the first year, ownership was transferred to George Kennedy of Montreal and the teams fortunes improved over the next seasons. The team won its first Stanley Cup championship in the 1915–16 season, in 1917, with four other NHA teams, the Canadiens formed the NHL, and they won their first NHL Stanley Cup during the 1923–24 season, led by Howie Morenz. The team moved from the Mount Royal Arena to the Montreal Forum for the 1926–27 season, the club began the 1930s decade successfully, with Stanley Cup wins in 1930 and 1931. The Canadiens and its rival, the Montreal Maroons, declined both on the ice and economically during the Great Depression. Losses grew to the point where the team owners considering selling the team to interests in Cleveland, Ohio, the Maroons still suspended operations, and several of their players moved to the Canadiens. Led by the Punch Line of Maurice Rocket Richard, Toe Blake and Elmer Lach in the 1940s, the Canadiens added ten more championships in 15 seasons from 1965 to 1979, with another dynastic run of four-straight Cups from 1976 to 1979. In the 1976–77 season, the Canadiens set two still-standing team records — for most points, with 132, and fewest losses, by losing eight games in an 80-game season. The next season, 1977–78, the team had a 28-game unbeaten streak, scotty Bowman, who would later set a record for most NHL victories by a coach, was the teams head coach for its last five Stanley Cup victories in the 1970s

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Howie Morenz
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Howard William Howie Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1923, he played centre for three National Hockey League teams, the Montreal Canadiens, the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers. Before joining the NHL, Morenz excelled in the junior Ontario Hockey Association, where his team played for the Memorial Cup, in the NHL, he was one of the most dominant players in the league and set several league scoring records. A strong skater, Morenz was referred to as the Stratford Streak, considered one of the first stars of the NHL, Morenz played 14 seasons in the league. He was a member of a Stanley Cup–winning team three times, all with the Canadiens, during his NHL career he placed in the top 10 leading scorers ten times. For seven straight seasons, Morenz led the Canadiens in both goals scored and points, three times in his career he was named the most valuable player of the league, and he led the league once in goals scored and twice in points scored. He was named to the NHL All-Star Team three times, Morenz died from complications of a broken leg, an injury he suffered in a game. After his death, the Canadiens retired his number, the first time the team had done so for any player. When the Hockey Hall of Fame opened in 1945, Morenz was one of the original nine inductees. In 1950, the Canadian Press named him the best ice hockey player of the first half of the 20th century, and in 2017 the NHL included him on their list of the 100 greatest players in league history. Born in Mitchell, Ontario to William Frederick Morenz and Rosena Pauli, Morenz learned his hockey by playing shinny on the Thames River. At the age of eight, he played his first organized game as a goaltender, after that game, a coach switched Morenz to rover, a defensive position. After the Morenz family moved to the community of Stratford in May 1917. At the age of 18, Morenz became an apprentice with the Canadian National Railways factory in Stratford, when not playing hockey, Morenz bet avidly on horse races and played the ukulele. In 1926 he married Mary McKay, together, they had three children, Howie Jr. in 1927, Donald in 1933, and Marlene in 1934, Marlene later married Bernie Geoffrion, who played for both the Canadiens and Rangers from 1950 to 1968. Their son, Morenzs grandson Dan, played for the Canadiens in 1979-80, dans son, Blake, played with the University of Wisconsin and won the Hobey Baker Award as best collegiate player in 2010. Selected in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft by the Nashville Predators, he made his debut with the Predators in 2011, Blake was traded to Montreal in 2012, meaning that all four generations of the Morenz-Geoffrion family have played within the Canadiens organization. In 1920 Morenz joined the Stratford Midgets junior team, leading the Ontario Hockey Association in assists and points during the 1920–21 regular season, the Midgets won the league title and played in the 1921 Memorial Cup against the Winnipeg Falcons

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Boston Bruins
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The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team has been in existence since 1924, and is the leagues third-oldest team and is the oldest in the United States. It is also an Original Six franchise, along with the Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Bruins have won six Stanley Cup championships, tied for fourth most of all-time with the Blackhawks and their home arena is the TD Garden, where they have played since 1995. The Bruins began play in the NHL on December 1,1924, in 1924, at the convincing of Boston grocery magnate Charles Adams, the National Hockey League decided to expand to the United States. Adams had fallen in love with hockey while watching the 1924 Stanley Cup Finals between the NHL champion Montreal Canadiens and the WCHL champion Calgary Tigers. With the Montreal Maroons, the team was one of the NHLs first expansion teams, Adams first act was to hire Art Ross, a former star player and innovator, as general manager. Ross was the face of the franchise for the thirty years. In 1924, Adams directed Ross to come up with a nickname for the franchise, arthur Ross picked a name by himself. According to him, a Bruin is an animal and alliterative with Boston. The background of the Bruins black and gold colorway dates back to their founder, Black and gold were the colors of Adams’ grocery chain, which made Boston Bruins uniforms a spot to advertise on. On December 1,1924, the new Bruins team played their first NHL game against the Maroons, at Boston Arena, but the team only managed a 6–24–0 record in its first season. In their third season, 1926–27, the team markedly improved, the Bruins reached the Stanley Cup Final despite finishing only one game above.500, but lost to the Ottawa Senators in the first Cup Final to be between exclusively NHL teams. In 1929 the Bruins defeated the New York Rangers to win their first Stanley Cup, standout players on the first championship team included Shore, Harry Oliver, Dit Clapper, Dutch Gainor and goaltender Tiny Thompson. The 1928–29 season was the first played at Boston Garden, which Adams had built after guaranteeing his backers $500,000 in gate receipts over the five years. The 1930s Bruins teams included Shore, Thompson, Clapper, Babe Siebert, the team led the leagues standings five times in the decade. In 1939, the changed its uniform colors from brown and yellow to the current black and gold. That year, Thompson was traded for rookie goaltender Frank Brimsek, Brimsek had an award-winning season, capturing the Vezina and Calder Trophies, becoming the first rookie named to the NHL First All-Star Team, and earning the nickname Mr. Zero

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1928 Stanley Cup Final
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The 1928 Stanley Cup Finals was a NHL championship series was played by the New York Rangers and the Montreal Maroons. It was the first appearance by the Rangers in the Finals and was their first victory of the Stanley Cup in only their second season and this was the second Stanley Cup victory by an American team, the first being the Seattle Metropolitans in the 1917 Stanley Cup Finals. The New York Rangers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the quarter-finals total-goals series 6–4, the Rangers then defeated the Boston Bruins in the semi-finals total-goals series 5–2 to reach the Final. The Montreal Maroons defeated the Ottawa Senators in the quarter-finals total-goals series 3–1, the Maroons then defeated the Montreal Canadiens in the semi-finals total-goals series 3–2 to reach the Final. The series had to be played in Montreal, as the circus had taken over New Yorks Madison Square Garden, the Rangers lost their goalie Lorne Chabot to eye injury in the second game. Although goaltenders Alex Connell and Hugh McCormick were in the stands, patrick became the oldest man to play in the Stanley Cup finals, a record which remains unsurpassed to this day. For the following matches, the Rangers hired New York Americans goalie Joe Miller, Miller was available to all NHL teams as a backup after the Americans had put him on waivers. The Boston Bruins had claimed him on waivers, but he was available to any NHL team. At the time of the Final, Miller had not played in four weeks, Miller was cut and suffered two black eyes in game five, but hung on for a 2–1 victory. New York Rangers vs. † Laurie Scott played 23 of 44 regular season games and he was sent to the minors before the playoffs, so his name was left off the Stanley Cup. Scott was included on team picture, but not on the Stanley Cup winning picture. Podnieks, Andrew, Hockey Hall of Fame, Stanley Cup,120 years of hockey supremacy

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New York Rangers
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The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden, located in the borough of Manhattan. The Rangers are one of three NHL franchises in the New York metropolitan area, along with the New Jersey Devils, the club is also one of the oldest teams in the NHL, having joined in 1926 as an expansion franchise. They are part of the group of teams referred to as the Original Six, along with the Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs. The Rangers were the first NHL franchise in the United States to win the Stanley Cup, the new team was quickly nicknamed Texs Rangers. Rickards franchise began play in the 1926–27 season, the first team crest was a horse sketched in blue carrying a cowboy waving a hockey stick aloft, before being changed to the familiar R-A-N-G-E-R-S in diagonal. Rickard managed to get future legendary Toronto Maple Leafs owner Conn Smythe to assemble the team. However, Smythe had a falling-out with Rickards hockey man, Col. John S. Hammond, Smythe was replaced by Pacific Coast Hockey Association co-founder Lester Patrick. The new team Smythe assembled turned out to be a winner, the Rangers won the American Division title their first year but lost to the Boston Bruins in the playoffs. The teams early success led to players becoming minor celebrities and fixtures in New York Citys Roaring Twenties nightlife and it was also during this time, playing at the Garden on 48th Street, blocks away from Times Square, that the Rangers obtained their now-famous nickname The Broadway Blueshirts. In only their season, the Rangers won the Stanley Cup. One of the most memorable stories that emerged from the Finals involved Patrick playing in goal at the age of 44, an angry Patrick lined up between the pipes for two periods in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals, allowing one goal to Maroons center Nels Stewart. Frank Boucher would eventually score the goal in overtime for New York. The Rangers would spend the rest of the 1930s playing close to 0.500 hockey until their next Cup win, Lester Patrick stepped down as head coach and was replaced by Frank Boucher. In 1939–40 season, the Rangers finished the season in second place behind Boston. The two teams would meet in the first round of the playoffs. The Bruins gained a series lead from New York, but the Rangers recovered to win three-straight games. The Rangers first round victory gave them a bye until the finals, the Detroit Red Wings defeated the New York Americans in their first round best-of-three series two games to one, and the Toronto Maple Leafs ousted the Chicago Black Hawks two games to none

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List of NHL seasons
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This is a list of seasons of the National Hockey League, a professional ice hockey league, since its inception in 1917. The list also includes the seasons of the National Hockey Association, the organization of the NHL. Only two franchises, Montreal and Toronto, still exist from the founding of the league, the Quebec Bulldogs, which suspended after the last NHA season, returned to play in the third NHL season, although they were considered founding members of the NHL. The team would be moved by the league to Hamilton, the original Ottawa Senators would continue in the league until 1935, where, after one season in St. Louis as the St. Louis Eagles, the franchise was dissolved by the league. The current Ottawa Senators franchise does recognize the history of the original Senators, the list is sub-divided using the same eras as the series of articles on the History of the National Hockey League. This changed in 1917 with the invention of the split-season, whereby the champion became the winner of the annual playoff, the NHL continued the split-season and playoff format upon the winding up of the NHA organization. Except for the 1919–20 season, where there was no playoff because Ottawa won both halves of the season, the champion of the NHL has been the playoff champion, the NHA champion was awarded the OBrien Cup. This was continued by the NHL, until 1927, the NHL champion was awarded the OBrien Cup, supplemented by the Prince of Wales Trophy, starting in 1925. To win the Stanley Cup, the NHL champion had to play off in a series with the champion of the Pacific Coast or Western hockey leagues. After 1927, the NHL playoff champion was awarded the Stanley Cup, while the OBrien Cup and Prince of Wales Trophy were reused as division championship and playoff runner-up awards. Hockey seasons traditionally started in January and ended in March until the 1910–11 season which was the first to start before the new year, the 1911–12 season saw the elimination of the rover position, reducing number of skaters per side to six. The 1916–17 season saw the introduction of the schedule, an innovation attributed to Toronto NHA owner Eddie Livingstone. All champion teams are also Stanley Cup champions unless marked. ^2, the league did not use tiebreakers to determine the top record. The two teams played off to determine the championship. ^3, Toronto and Battalion did not participate in the second half. ^ 4a. No Finals prior to 1914, Stanley Cup awarded to league winners, Finals in 1915 and 1916 contested between top two teams of regular season. ^ 4c. Finals from 1917 through 1921 contested between qualifier from first half-season and qualifier from second half-season, the NHL started with three of the six NHA clubs and a Toronto franchise run by the Toronto Arena Co. which leased the players of the Toronto Blueshirts. Almost immediately after starting the season, the Wanderers folded, leaving three teams to complete the season, the same three teams returned for 1918–19 before Quebec returned for 1919–20, moving to Hamilton the following year. The same four-team configuration lasted until 1924–25 when the Montreal Maroons, expansion into other cities followed, lasting until the 1930s, when several teams folded

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Stanley Cup
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The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoff winner. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC, and subsequent winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games, Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. After a series of mergers and folds, it was established as the de facto championship trophy of the NHL in 1926. There are actually three Stanley Cups, the bowl of the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the authenticated Presentation Cup. The NHL has maintained control over both the trophy itself and its associated trademarks. Nevertheless, the NHL does not actually own the trophy, the original bowl was made of silver and is 18.5 centimetres in height and 29 centimetres in diameter. The current Stanley Cup, topped with a copy of the bowl, is made of a silver and nickel alloy, it has a height of 89.54 centimetres. Unlike the trophies awarded by the major professional sports leagues of North America. Originally, the winners kept it until a new champion was crowned, currently, winning teams get the Stanley Cup during the summer and a limited number of days during the season. It is unusual among trophies to include winning members names, every year since 1924, a select portion of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff names are engraved on its bands. However, there is not enough room to include all the players and non-players, initially a new band added each year, though this caused the trophy to grow in size, earning the nickname Stovepipe Cup. In 1958 the modern one-piece Cup was designed with a barrel which could contain 13 winning teams per band. To prevent the Stanley Cup from growing, when the band is full, the oldest band is removed and preserved in the Hockey Hall of Fame. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanleys Cup, The Holy Grail, the Stanley Cup is surrounded by numerous legends and traditions, the oldest of which is the celebratory drinking of champagne out of the cup by the winning team. Since the 1914–15 season, the Cup has been won a combined 100 times by 18 active NHL teams, prior to that, the challenge cup was held by nine different teams. The Montreal Canadiens have won the Cup a record 24 times and are the most recent Canadian-based team to win the cup, the Stanley Cup was not awarded in 1919 because of a Spanish flu epidemic, and in 2005, as a consequence of the 2004–05 NHL lockout. After the Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria as Governor General of Canada on June 11,1888, he, Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreals 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club. The Montreal Gazette reported that he expressed his delight with the game of hockey

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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci

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National Hockey Association
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The National Hockey Association, officially the National Hockey Association of Canada Limited, was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the predecessor to todays National Hockey League. Founded in 1909 by Ambrose OBrien, the NHA introduced six-man hockey by removing the rover position in 1911, during its lifetime, the league coped with competition for players with the rival Pacific Coast Hockey Association, the enlistment of players for World War I and disagreements between owners. The disagreements between owners came to a head in 1917, when the NHA suspended operations in order to get rid of an unwanted owner. The remaining NHA team owners started the NHL in parallel as a measure, to continue play while negotiations went on with Livingstone. A year later, after no progress was reached with Livingstone, the NHAs rules, constitution and trophies were continued in the NHL. In November 1909, the Eastern Canada Hockey Association, holder of the Stanley Cup, the Montreal Wanderers team of the ECHA had been bought by P. J. Doran, owner of the Jubilee Rink in Montreal and he intended to move the teams games there. The Jubilee was smaller than the Wanderers current rink, the Montreal Arena which meant visiting teams would earn less on their trips to play the Wanderers. On November 25,1909, the teams in the league disbanded the ECHA and formed the new Canadian Hockey Association. The team had applied to the Stanley Cup trustees as champions of the Federal League, at the November 25 CHA founding meeting, held at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal, OBrien applied to join the CHA but the application was rejected. Sitting in the lobby of the hotel after the CHA meeting, OBrien met Jimmy Gardner of the Wanderers, together, they decided to form their own league, the National Hockey Association. At the same time, to build a rivalry and capture francophone interest in Montreal, OBrien and Gardner conceived of creating a team consisting of francophone players, to be managed by francophones. In all, OBrien and his father, Michael John OBrien, were financing four teams in the league, the Renfrew Creamery Kings, Cobalt, Haileybury, the Cobalt and Haileybury clubs were from the Timiskaming Professional Hockey League and Renfrew from the Federal Hockey League. Along with the Wanderers, the league had five teams, the OBriens were determined to win the Stanley Cup and a bidding war for players immediately started. Frank Patrick and Lester Patrick were each signed by the Renfrew Millionaires for $3,000 apiece, Renfrew also signed star player Cyclone Taylor of the champion Ottawa Senators team, reputedly at $5,000 per season. Attendance at the CHA games was poor and a meeting of the NHA was held on January 15,1910 to discuss a merger of the two leagues. Instead, the NHA admitted Ottawa and the Montreal Shamrocks to the NHA, the owners of the Montreal Le National were offered the ownership of the Canadiens but turned it down. The Quebec Bulldogs and the teams of the CHA were not even considered for membership

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Prince of Wales Trophy
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The current holder of the Prince of Wales Trophy are the Pittsburgh Penguins after winning the 2016 Eastern Conference Final. The Prince of Wales Trophy was first announced in December 1925, the trophy, sponsored by the Prince of Wales and bearing the royal coat of arms, cost $2,500, and was to be in the possession of the league champion. It was originally awarded to the winner of the first game played in Madison Square Garden, the award was then held by the Canadiens until the end of the season. The Canadiens engraved their name on the trophy twice, for the 1924–25 season, and the preceding 1923–24 season, for which the team was league champions. It was then awarded to the NHL playoff champion in 1925–26 and 1926–27, before that team would go on to face the Western Hockey League champion for the Stanley Cup at the end of those seasons. With the expansion of the NHL in 1967, and the creation of the West Division, when the league formed two conferences in 1974, the trophy transferred to the team that finished with the best regular season record in the Wales Conference, until 1981. The NHL changed its format so that the two conference playoff champions would meet for the Stanley Cup. The Prince of Wales Trophy was presented to the Wales Conference playoff champions, in the summer of 1993 Wales Conference was renamed the Eastern Conference. Prince of Wales trophy has been awarded to the Eastern Conference playoff champions since the 1993-94 season, a superstition that is prevalent among many of todays NHL players is that no player should either touch or hoist the Wales or Clarence S. Instead of touching the trophy, the captain of the winning team merely poses with the trophy, and sometimes. However, there have been other teams who have ignored the superstition, key * Defunct team ^ = Year clinched to lead years won ¤ = Year clinched to lead years consecutively won † = Eventual Stanley Cup champions a = Engraved in 1925–26. December 15,1925 – Montreal Canadiens The Canadiens were league champions for these seasons, notes Clarence S. Campbell Bowl List of National Hockey League awards NHL. com History @ Legends of Hockey. net

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Madison Square Garden
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Madison Square Garden, often called MSG or simply The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station. The Garden is used for basketball and ice hockey, as well as boxing, concerts, ice shows, circuses, professional wrestling and other forms of sports. It is close to other midtown Manhattan landmarks, including the Empire State Building, Koreatown and it is home to the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League, the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, and residency to singer-songwriter Billy Joel. The Garden opened on February 11,1968, and is the oldest major sporting facility in the New York metropolitan area and it is the oldest arena in the National Hockey League and the second-oldest arena in the National Basketball Association. MSG is the fourth-busiest music arena in the world in terms of sales, behind The O2 Arena. At a total construction cost of approximately $1.1 billion and it is part of the Pennsylvania Plaza office and retail complex. Several other operating entities related to the Garden share its name, Madison Square is formed by the intersection of 5th Avenue and Broadway at 23rd Street in Manhattan. It was named after James Madison, fourth President of the United States, two venues called Madison Square Garden were located just northeast of the square, the first from 1879 to 1890, and the second from 1890 to 1925. The first Garden, leased to P. T. Barnum, had no roof and was inconvenient to use during inclement weather, Madison Square Garden II was designed by noted architect Stanford White. The new building was built by a syndicate which included J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, P. T. Barnum, Darius Mills, James Stillman and W. W. Astor. It was 200 feet by 485 feet, and the main hall and it had a 1, 200-seat theatre, a concert hall with a capacity of 1,500, the largest restaurant in the city and a roof garden cabaret. A third Madison Square Garden opened in a new location, on 8th Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, from 1925 to 1968, groundbreaking on the third Madison Square Garden took place on January 9,1925. Designed by the theater architect Thomas W. Lamb, it was built at the cost of $4.75 million in 249 days by boxing promoter Tex Rickard. The arena was 200 feet by 375 feet, with seating on three levels, and a capacity of 18,496 spectators for boxing. Demolition commenced in 1968 after the opening of the current Garden and it finished up in early 1969, and the site is now where One Worldwide Plaza is located. The new structure was one of the first of its kind to be built above the platforms of a railroad station. It was an engineering feat constructed by Robert E. McKee of El Paso, public outcry over the demolition of the Pennsylvania Station structure—an outstanding example of Beaux-Arts architecture—led to the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission

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Pete Muldoon
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Muldoon was the Black Hawks first head coach. Muldoon was born in St. Marys, Ontario, as Linton Muldoon Treacy and he played hockey in the OHA in the 1900s before moving to the Pacific coast in order to pursue a boxing career. He changed his name to Pete Muldoon because the pursuit of a sports career was discouraged in Ontario at the time. Muldoon won regional titles in both the middleweight and light heavyweight divisions while boxing, Muldoon was accomplished at other sports, including lacrosse. He played professionally for a Vancouver club in 1911 and he was also an ice dancer who was able to skate, as well as play hockey, while on stilts. In 1914, he took over as the coach and manager of the Portland Rosebuds, for the 1915 season, he changed teams, and went to Seattle to manage a new team in the PCHA, the Metropolitans. He spent eight seasons coaching in Seattle, and amassed a record of 115 wins,105 losses, the Metropolitans competed several times for the Stanley Cup. The Mets played for the Stanley Cup three times under his leadership, and winning it once in 1917 during their first trip, Muldoon was the first and, at age 30, youngest coach of a Stanley Cup Championship team based in the United States. In 1919, the Metropolitans made it to the finals for the time in three years, this time against the Montreal Canadiens. The series was to have been a series, but the fourth game ended in a scoreless draw. However, local officials called off the deciding sixth game just hours before it was due to start when several players on both teams were stricken by Spanish flu. However, Muldoon felt it would be unsportsmanlike to accept what would have been his second Cup, Seattle lost in the Stanley Cup finals in the next year against the Ottawa Senators. Muldoon returned to the Rosebuds after the Metropolitans folded in the spring of 1924 and he followed most of his players to the NHL when most of the Rosebuds were sold to Major Frederic McLaughlin to start the Chicago Black Hawks. He accepted the position because his wife Dorothy was a Chicago native, Muldoon returned to Seattle and became involved in efforts to bring a professional team back to the city, as a new arena was constructed in 1928. Muldoon, with the help of a group of investors, established the Seattle Ice Skating and Hockey Association and this new league had its first season in 1928, and the Seattle team was dubbed the Seattle Eskimos. According to a longstanding NHL legend, McLaughlin felt the Blackhawks should have won the American Division in their first season, Muldoon was then reported to have placed an Irish curse on the Hawks that would keep them out of first place forever. As it turned out, the Hawks would not finish first, in any format, in the spring of 1929, Muldoon went to Tacoma with co-owner and local boxing promoter Nate Druxman to search for a location to build a new rink in order to establish a team. While in Tacoma, on March 13,1929, Muldoon died due to a heart attack, without their coach, the Seattle Eskimos were able to win a playoff series against Portland, before losing to Vancouver in the league finals

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Hugh Lehman
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Frederick Hugh Old Eagle Eyes Lehman was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He started his ice hockey playing for the Pembroke Lumber Kings. In 1911, Lehman joined the New Westminster Royals, playing for the Royals for three seasons, before joining the Vancouver Millionaires in 1914, Lehman played half of his 22-year professional career with Vancouver, winning his only Stanley Cup, he would be unsuccessful in seven other attempts. In 1926, he joined the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, playing a season and splitting the second one as player. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958, Lehman began his playing career in 1903–04, playing for the Pembroke Lumber Kings of the Ottawa Valley Hockey League for the first three seasons of his career. In the 1906–07 season, Lehman was signed as free agent by the Canadian Soo of the International Professional Hockey League, Lehman returned to Pembroke for the 1907–08 season, appearing in four games. For the 1908–09 season, Lehman joined the Berlin Dutchmen of the Ontario Professional Hockey League, in the 1909–10 season, Lehman was in two different Stanley Cup playoff series, with two different teams, the Berlin Dutchmen and the Galt Professionals, but he lost both times. During those playoff series, he appeared in three games, giving up 22 goals, Lehman played with the Berlin Dutchmen until 1911. In 1911–12, Lehman played for the New Westminster Royals of the newly founded Pacific Coast Hockey Association and he played three seasons for New Westminster, winning the league championship in his first season. In 1914–15, Lehman joined the Vancouver Millionaires of the PCHA, in the Stanley Cup playoffs, Lehman helped the Millionaires become the first PCHA team to win the Stanley Cup, with a 3–0 record and 2.67 goals against average. This would be the only Stanley Cup victory of Lehmans career, Lehman played with the Millionaires until the 1925–26 season. During that time, Lehman and some of his teammates were involved in an incident when going back to Canada after an exhibition game against the Montreal Wanderers in New York City. In New York, Lehmans wife bought numerous womens designer outfits, in 1922–23, the Millionaires were renamed the Maroons, and joined the Western Canada Hockey League. The WCHL was renamed to the Western Hockey League in 1925–26, however, while playing for the Millionaires, Lehman appeared in six Stanley Cup finals, losing every time, except in his first season, in 1914–15. Following the collapse of the WHL, Lehman joined the Chicago Black Hawks for the 1926–27 season, while in Chicago, Lehman mentored future Chicago goaltender and captain Charlie Gardiner. Lehman played one season, and another four games the next one. During the 1926 season, Lehman became the oldest goaltender to win his first NHL game, expecting to be fired after that outburst, Lehman was later told to go to McLaughlins office. It was how Lehmans playing career ended, McLaughlin appointed Lehman to be Chicagos new head coach, Lehman coached Chicago for part of one season, finishing with a 3–17–1 record over 21 games

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Barney Stanley
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He was the second head coach of the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, appearing as a player in one game for the team. He won the Stanley Cup with the Millionaires in 1915 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963, Stanley was born in Paisley, Ontario, the son of a dairy farmer. He moved west to Medicine Hat, Alberta at 17 to play hockey before settling in Edmonton. He joined the Edmonton Maritimers in 1911–12, then spent the three seasons as both a player and coach for the Edmonton Dominions and Albertas, all of the Alberta Senior Hockey League. Stanley turned professional in 1915, joining the Vancouver Millionaires of the PCHA, Stanley scored seven goals in his first five regular season contests with Vancouver, of which his first professional goal, in his first game, was assisted by Cyclone Taylor. He won the Stanley Cup with the Millionaires in 1915 as they defeated the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League for the Canadian championship, Stanley scored four goals in the third and deciding game of the series. Stanley was a Second Team All-Star with the Millionaires in 1918 and he then fought to regain his amateur status so that he could take on the role of player-coach with the Edmonton Eskimos of Albertas Big-4 League. He left the Eskimos after one year to join the Calgary Tigers and he scored 26 goals in 24 games for the Tigers in 1921–22 and was named a league all-star on right wing. His rights were sold to the Regina Capitals following the season served as player-coach and was again named all-star right wing. After two seasons in Regina, he returned to the Eskimos for two more, as player-coach for the Eskimos, Stanley led the team to the top record in the league in 1925–26. Following the collapse of the WCHL in 1926, Stanley purchased the Eskimos, before the season began, however, he sold the team and joined the Winnipeg Maroons. He purchased a stake in the franchise, and signed on as a defenceman. He was hired by the Chicago Black Hawks to be their manager, Stanley managed the club for only 23 games as the team replaced him following a 4–17–2 start to the season, but not before appearing in one regular season contest as a player with the team. Stanley returned to the AHA, playing his final season of hockey with the Minneapolis Millers before retiring in 1929 and he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962. Stanley and his wife Muriel Frances had four children, son Don and daughters Isobel, Dorothy, following the death in 1951 of his first wife, Stanley married Margaret Muir. He had three brothers and a sister and his son was also a hockey player and was a member of Canadas 1950 world championship team while his nephew Allan Stanley is also a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Following his arrival in Edmonton, Stanley became involved in the Dairy industry and he first joined the Edmonton City Dairy in 1913, and remained with the firm for 11 years while he remained an active hockey player. He purchased a share in a farm in 1924

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Hooley Smith
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Reginald Joseph Hooley Smith was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons, Boston Bruins and New York Americans. He won the Stanley Cup twice, with Ottawa and Montreal and he is possibly the first National Hockey League player to wear a helmet. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Smith played amateur hockey for the Toronto Granites team that won the Allan Cup and he had an outstanding Olympic ice hockey tournament, scoring 17 goals and 33 points in five games. He started his career with the Super Six of the Ottawa Senators the following winter. In his first season with Ottawa, he received a head injury, when he returned to play he wore a jockey-type helmet to protect his head. In 1926–27, Ottawa won the Stanley Cup against Boston and it was the last game that Smith played with Ottawa. After attacking Harry Oliver in the game of that series. Ottawa had lost money during the season winning the Stanley Cup. As a member of the Maroons, Hooley would be a part of one of the best early forward lines in NHL history, by the mid-1930s the Maroons were experiencing financial difficulties and he was sold to Boston, where he only played for one season. He then was sold to the New York Americans, starting with 1938–39, he played defence for the Americans until 1940–41 after which he retired. Hooley Smith died as a result of an attack on August 24,1963 at St. Marys Hospital in Montreal. At the time of his death, he was the last surviving member of the famed S line and he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1972. October 31,1924 - Signed as an agent by Ottawa Senators. October 7,1927 - Traded to Montreal Maroons by Ottawa for Harry Broadbent, october 26,1936 - Traded to Boston by Mtl. Maroons for cash and future considerations, november 5,1937 - Traded to New York Americans by Boston for cash

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Punch Broadbent
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Harold Lawton Harry Punch Broadbent was a Canadian ice hockey player. Broadbent played for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons and the New York Americans in the National Hockey Association and he is generally regarded as one of the first true power forwards in NHL history. Broadbent married Leda Fitzimmons and had one daughter, Sally Ann Broadbent, Broadbent was awarded the Military Medal for his service in World War I. The right winger started his career with the Ottawa Senators, then of the National Hockey Association before World War I. He was seventh in the league in scoring his rookie year of 1913 and he scored three goals in the Stanley Cup finals against the Vancouver Millionaires in 1915 before going to the war for three and one-half years. After resuming his career and teaming with forwards Frank Nighbor and Cy Denneny, he starred for the Senators for six more seasons, though he was a holdout for most of the 1921 season, Broadbent came back to win the league scoring title in 1922. He also set a record that season by scoring goals in sixteen consecutive games, the streak began during a 10-0 rout of the Montreal Canadiens on Christmas Eve and lasted through to a 6-6 tie with Canadiens on February 15. As of 2015, it remains the NHL record, in 1925, along with veteran teammate Clint Benedict, Broadbent was sold by Ottawa to the expansion Montreal Maroons. Broadbent was the Maroons leading scorer that first season, including a game against the Hamilton Tigers. In his second season with the Maroons, the team won its first Stanley Cup championship against the Ottawa Senators and he was traded back to the Senators in 1928 with cash for Hooley Smith. He played for the New York Americans in 1929 and retired after that season, Broadbent finished his career with 172 goals and 58 assists in 360 professional games. After his playing career, he coached for years in the Ottawa City Hockey League. He was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1962, december 30,1920 - Rights transferred to Hamilton Tigers from Ottawa Senators by NHL with Sprague Cleghorn. Both Broadbent and Cleghorn refused to report, january 4,1921 - Rights traded to Montreal Canadiens by Hamilton Tigers for cash. February 21,1921 - Rights returned to Ottawa Senators by NHL, october 20,1924 - Traded to Montreal Maroons by Ottawa Senators with Clint Benedict for cash. October 7,1927 - Traded to Ottawa Senators by Montreal Maroons with $22,500 for Hooley Smith, october 15,1928 - Traded to New York Americans by Ottawa Senators for $10,000. January 1,1929 - Fined $25 by NHL for trying to start a fight in the penalty box during game with Montreal Canadiens, october 31,1929 - Officially announced retirement. List of members of the Hockey Hall of Fame List of players with 5 or more goals in an NHL game McFarlane, the Story of the National Hockey League

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Eddie Shore
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On January 1,2017, in a ceremony prior to the Centennial Classic, Shore was part of the first group of players to be named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. Shore won the Hart Trophy as the NHLs most valuable player four times, a bruiser known for his violence, Shore set a then-NHL record for 165 penalty minutes in his second season. Shore started his career with his minor hockey team in Cupar. Shore played with the Regina Capitals of the Western Canada Hockey League in 1925 and his team finished last in the league and folded at the end of the season. Shore moved to the league champion Edmonton Eskimos in 1926, where he converted from forward to defence and was given the nickname the Edmonton Express, when the Western Hockey League folded in 1926, Shore was sold to the Boston Bruins of the NHL. As a rookie, he scored 12 goals and six assists for a total of 18 points, Shore helped the Bruins win their first Stanley Cup in 1929. In the 1925–26 season, Billy Coutu and Sprague Cleghorn of the Montreal Canadiens were traded to the Boston Bruins, during their first practice with the Bruins, Shore strutted back and forth in front of Coutu and Cleghorn. Coutu body-slammed, head-butted, elbowed and tried to torment Shore, next Coutu picked up the puck and made a rush at Shore. Shore held his ground and Coutu flew through the air violently crashing to the ice, Shores ear was almost ripped off but he barely noticed it. Coutu was out cold and was out of commission for a week, Shore visited several doctors who wanted to amputate the ear, but found one who sewed it back on. After refusing anesthetic, Shore used a mirror to watch the doctor sew the ear on, Shore claimed Coutu used his hockey stick to cut off the ear, and Coutu was fined $50. Shore later recanted and Coutus money was refunded, another unusual incident involving Shore occurred in January 1930 when he was challenged to a boxing match by baseball player Art Shires. On January 24,1933, during a game against Montreal, in Boston on December 12,1933, Shore ended the career of Toronto Maple Leafs star Ace Bailey when he hit Bailey from behind. Shore had checked Bailey, apparently in retaliation for a hit that Shore had received from Baileys teammate King Clancy moments earlier, when Baileys head hit the ice he was knocked unconscious and went into convulsions. In retaliation, Leafs tough-guy Red Horner punched Shore, whose head hit the ice as he fell from the blow, Shore was knocked out and required seven stitches but wasnt seriously injured. Bailey was rushed to hospital in critical condition with a fractured skull, following the incident, Shore was suspended for 16 games by the league. Shore apologized to Bailey after the game, and the two hands at centre ice before a benefit game at Maple Leaf Gardens in Baileys honour on February 14,1934. Shore and the Bruins won their second Stanley Cup in 1939, Shore retired and bought the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League, where he was player-owner in 1939–40

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Ottawa Senators (original)
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The Ottawa Senators were a professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a member of the National Hockey League. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, was known by nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 1907. Generally acknowledged by historians as one of the greatest teams of the early days of the sport. Ottawa HC played in the first season during which the Stanley Cup was challenged in 1893, the club repeated its success in the 1920s, winning the Stanley Cup in 1920,1921,1923 and 1927. In total, the won the Stanley Cup eleven times. In 1950, Canadian sports editors selected the Ottawa HC/Senators as Canadas greatest team in the first half of the 20th century. The club competed in the NHL until the 1933–34 season, when it relocated the NHL franchise to St. Louis, Missouri, the organization continued the Senators as an amateur, and later semi-professional, team in Quebec senior mens leagues until 1954. The Ottawa Hockey Club was founded by a group of like-minded hockey enthusiasts. A month after witnessing games of hockey at the 1883 Montreal Winter Carnival, Halder Kirby, Jack Kerr and Frank Jenkins met, being the first organized ice hockey club in Ottawa, and also the first in Ontario, the club had no other clubs to play that season. The only activities that winter were practices at the Royal Rink starting on March 5,1883, the club first participated competitively at the 1884 Montreal Winter Carnival ice hockey tournament wearing red and black uniforms. Future Ottawa mayor Nelson Porter is recorded as the scorer of the clubs first-ever goal, Frank Jenkins was the first captain of the team, he later became the president of the Hockey Club in 1891 and of the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada in 1892. For the 1885 season, the club adopted gold and blue as its colours, Ottawa earned its first-ever victory at the tournament over the Montreal Victorias, but lost its final match to the Montreal Hockey Club to place second in the tournament. The 1886 Montreal tournament was cancelled due to an outbreak of smallpox, on December 8,1886, the first championship league, the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada was founded in Montreal. It was composed of clubs from Montreal plus a Quebec City club. Ottawas Thomas D. Green was named the first president of the league, under the format, Ottawa lost the one challenge it played in that first 1887 season to the Montreal Victorias. After that season, Ottawa HC became inactive, the Royal Rink, which had been their primary facility, had been converted to a roller skating rink, and ice rink facilities were at a shortage. This changed with the opening of the Rideau Skating Rink in February 1889, One of the principal organizers in the restarting of the team was Ottawa Journal publisher P. D. Ross, who also played on the team

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Toronto Maple Leafs
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team is one of the Original Six league members. They are owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Ltd. and are represented by Chairman Larry Tanenbaum, in February 1999, they moved to the Air Canada Centre, which replaced Maple Leaf Gardens, the teams home since 1931. The franchise was founded in 1917, operating simply as Toronto and known today as the Toronto Arenas, as it was operated by the Toronto Arena Company, in 1919, the NHL transferred the franchise to new owners who christened the team the Toronto St. Patricks. The franchise was sold in 1927 and was renamed the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club, the team colours are navy blue and white. The Maple Leafs have won thirteen Stanley Cup championships, second only to the 24 championships of their primary rival and they won their last championship in 1967. Their 48-season drought between championships is currently the longest in the NHL, with an estimated worth of US $1.15 billion in 2015 according to Forbes, the Leafs are the third most valuable franchise in the NHL, behind the Montreal Canadiens and the New York Rangers. In 2015, they were ranked by Forbes as the 37th most valuable team in the world. The National Hockey League was formed in 1917 in Montreal by teams belonging to the National Hockey Association that had a dispute with Eddie Livingstone. Instead, they opted to create a new league, the NHL and they also remained voting members of the NHA, and thus had enough votes to suspend the other leagues operations, effectively leaving Livingstones squad in a one-team league. However, the other wanted to have a team from Toronto. They also needed another team to balance the schedule after the Bulldogs suspended operations, the NHL granted a temporary Toronto franchise to the Arena Company, owners of the Arena Gardens. The Arena Company leased the Blueshirts players and was given until the end of the season to resolve the dispute with Livingstone, the franchise did not have an official name, but was informally called the Blueshirts or the Torontos by the fans and press. Under Manager Charlie Querrie and Head Coach Dick Carroll, the Toronto team won the Stanley Cup in the NHLs inaugural season, although the roster was composed almost entirely of former Blueshirts, the Maple Leafs do not claim the Blueshirts history. Also that year, the Arena Company decided that only NHL teams would be allowed to play at the Arena Gardens—a move which effectively killed the NHA, Livingstone sued to get his players back. Mounting legal bills from the dispute forced the Arenas to sell most of their stars, when it was obvious that the Arenas would not be able to finish the season, the NHL agreed to let the team halt operations on February 20,1919. The NHL ended its season and started the playoffs, the Arenas.278 winning percentage that season is still the worst in franchise history. However, the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals ended without a winner due to the flu epidemic

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New York Americans
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The New York Americans, colloquially known as the Amerks, were a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York from 1925 to 1942. They were the expansion team in the history of the National Hockey League. The team never won the Stanley Cup, but reached the semifinals twice. While it was the first team in New York City, it was eclipsed by the second, the New York Rangers, the team operated as the Brooklyn Americans during the 1941–42 season before suspending operations in 1942 due to the World War II and long-standing financial difficulties. The demise of the club marked the beginning of the NHLs Original Six era from 1942 to 1967, the teams overall regular season record was 255–402–127. In 1923, Thomas Duggan received options on three NHL franchises for the United States, after selling one to Boston grocery magnate Charles Adams, which became the Boston Bruins in 1924, Duggan arranged with Tex Rickard to have a team in Madison Square Garden. Rickard agreed, but play was delayed until the new Garden was built in 1925, in April of that year, Duggan and Bill Dwyer, New York Citys most-celebrated prohibition bootlegger, were awarded the franchise for New York. Somewhat fortuitously given the shortage of players, the Hamilton Tigers, however, the suspensions were quietly lifted in the off-season. Soon afterward, Dwyer duly bought the rights to the Tiger players for $75,000. He gave the players healthy raises—in some cases. Just before the season, Dwyer announced his team would be named the New York Americans and their original jerseys were covered with stars and stripes, patterned after the American flag. Although he acquired the Tigers players, Dwyer did not acquire the franchise, as a result, the NHL does not consider the Americans to be a continuation of the Tigers—or for that matter, of the Tigers predecessors, the Quebec Bulldogs. The Americans entered the league in the 1925–26 season along with the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Americans and Pirates became the second and third American-based teams in the NHL, following Adams Boston Bruins, who began play the previous season. Success did not come easily for the Americans, even though their roster was substantively the same that finished first the previous year, in the Americans first season they finished fifth overall with a record of 12–22–4. However, they did prove a success at the box office, so much so that the following season Garden management landed a team of its own, a clause in the Amerks lease with the Garden required them to support any bid for the Garden to acquire an NHL franchise. The Garden had promised Dwyer that it would never exercise that option, however, when the Garden opted to seek its own team after all, the Amerks had little choice but to agree. They were thus doomed to a history as New York Citys second team. The 1926–27 season saw the Americans continue to struggle, finishing 17–25–2, part of the problem was that they were placed in the Canadian Division in defiance of all geographic reality, resulting in a larger number of train trips to Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa. Meanwhile, the Rangers won the American Division title, the 1928–29 NHL season saw the Amerks sign star goaltender Roy Worters from the Pittsburgh Pirates

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Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL)
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The Pittsburgh Pirates were an American professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1925–26 to 1929–30. The nickname comes from the team also based in the city. For the 1930–31 season, the moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Pirates are traced back to the Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets of the US Amateur Hockey Association, the Yellow Jackets owner was Roy Schooley, a former referee. Even though the team won the USAHA Championship in 1924 and 1925 and his team was then sold to attorney James F. Callahan. Pittsburgh was granted a franchise by the National Hockey League on November 7,1925, Callahan then renamed his team the Pittsburgh Pirates, after he received permission from Barney Dreyfuss, the owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team. The Pirates were assigned to what would later be called the NHLs American Division, with the Boston Bruins and these two franchises were the only other American teams in the NHL at the time. The Duquesne Gardens, located in the citys Oakland neighborhood, served as the home arena. The Pirates, dubbed the Mighty Steel City Sextet in the Pittsburgh Press, were leftovers from the former Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets. Ten former Yellow Jacket players would play for the Pirates, the Pirates began play during the 1925–26 NHL season. On November 26,1925, Thanksgiving night, the Pirates defeated the Boston Bruins, 2-1, on the road in their very first NHL game, defenceman and captain Lionel Conacher scored Pittsburghs first-ever NHL goal. Conacher beat Boston goaltender Charles Stewart at the 17,50 mark of the period to tie the game at 1-1. Two nights later, on November 28,1925, the Pirates stunned the Montreal Canadiens, the 1-0 loss to the Pirates marked the final game for legendary Habs goaltender Georges Vezina. Vezina started the game with severe chest pains and left the game during the first intermission with a high fever and he died four months later from tuberculosis. Meanwhile, the first NHL game ever played in Pittsburgh was on December 2,1925, the Pirates lost to the New York Americans in overtime, 2-1. Conacher scored the goal for Pittsburgh at 9,15 of the second period. In 36 games, the Pirates posted an impressive 19-16-1 record for third best in the league, with a 0.542 winning percentage, that first season would arguably be the teams best. They made the playoffs their inaugural year, during the playoffs, the Pirates faced the Montreal Maroons in a best-of-three, semi-final Stanley Cup playoff series

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Detroit Red Wings
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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League and are one of the Original Six teams of the league, founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seasons the team was called the Detroit Falcons, between the 1933–34 and 1965–66 seasons, the Red Wings missed the playoffs only four times. Between the 1966–67 and 1990–91 seasons, the Red Wings made the only eight times in 25 seasons. During the last 11 years of this stretch, only five of the Leagues 21 teams did not make the post-season and this rough period for the team provoked the nickname of the Dead Wings. Near the end of that 25-year period, however, the Red Wings advanced to the Conference Finals twice. They have made the playoffs in 30 of the last 32 seasons, including 25 in a row, during a subsequent meeting on May 15, the league approved a franchise to the Townsend-Seyburn group of Detroit and named Charles A. Hughes as governor. Frank and Lester Patrick, the owners of the WHL, made a deal to sell the players to the NHL. The new Detroit franchise purchased the players of the folded Victoria Cougars WHL club to play for the team, the new Detroit franchise also adopted the Cougars nickname in honor of the folded franchise. Since no arena in Detroit was ready at the time, the Cougars played their first season in Windsor, for the 1927–28 season, the Cougars moved into the new Detroit Olympia, which would be their home rink until December 27,1979. This was also the first season behind the bench for Jack Adams, the Cougars made the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 1929 with Carson Cooper leading the team in scoring. The Cougars were outscored 7–2 in the series with the Toronto Maple Leafs. In 1930, the Cougars were renamed the Falcons, but their woes continued, as they finished near the bottom of the standings. In 1932, the NHL let grain merchant James E. Norris, Norris first act was to choose a new name for the team—the Red Wings. Earlier in the century, Norris had been a member of the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association, the MAAAs teams were known by their club emblem and these Winged Wheelers were the first winners of the Stanley Cup in 1893. Norris decided that a version of their logo was perfect for a team playing in the Motor City, Norris also placed coach Jack Adams on a one-year probation for the 1932–33 NHL season. Adams managed to pass his probationary period by leading the franchise to first ever playoff series victory over the Montreal Maroons. Despite this success, the team lost in the semi-finals to the New York Rangers, in 1934 the Wings made the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time, with John Sorrell scoring 21 goals over 47 games and Larry Aurie leading the team in scoring

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Chicago Blackhawks
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The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League and they have won six Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926. The Blackhawks are one of the Original Six NHL teams along with the Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadiens, Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, since 1994, the clubs home rink is the United Center. The club had played for 65 years at Chicago Stadium. The clubs original owner was Frederic McLaughlin, who owned the club until his death in 1944, under McLaughlin, a hands-on owner who fired many coaches during his ownership, the club won two Stanley Cup titles. The club was owned by the Norris family, who as owners of the Chicago Stadium were the clubs landlord. At first, the Norris ownership was as part of a syndicate fronted by long-time executive Bill Tobin, after the senior James E. Norris died in 1952, the Norris assets were spread among family members and James D. Norris became owner. Norris Jr. took an active interest in the team and under his ownership, after James D. Norris died in 1966, the Wirtz family became owners of the franchise. In 2007, the club came under the control of Rocky Wirtz, who is credited with turning around the organization, under Rocky Wirtz, the Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup three times within six seasons. On May 1,1926, the NHL awarded a franchise for Chicago to a syndicate headed by former football star Huntington Hardwick of Boston. However, only one later, Hardwicks group sold out to Chicago coffee tycoon Frederic McLaughlin. McLaughlin had been a commander with the 333rd Machine Gun Battalion of the 86th Infantry Division during World War I and this Division was nicknamed the Blackhawk Division after a Native American of the Sauk nation, Black Hawk, who was a prominent figure in the history of Illinois. McLaughlin named the new team in honor of the military unit. The Black Hawks began play in the 1926–27 season, along with new expansion franchises Detroit Cougars, McLaughlin took a very active role in running the team despite having no background in the sport. McLaughlin hired Bill Tobin, a goaltender who had played in the Western league, as his assistant. He was also interested in promoting American hockey players, then very rare in professional hockey. The Hawks first season was a moderate success and they played their first game on November 17 when they played the Toronto St. Patricks in the Chicago Coliseum. The Black Hawks won their first game 4–1, in front of a crowd of over 7,000 and they ended up finishing the season in third place with a record of 19–22–3

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1928 Stanley Cup Finals
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The 1928 Stanley Cup Finals was a NHL championship series was played by the New York Rangers and the Montreal Maroons. It was the first appearance by the Rangers in the Finals and was their first victory of the Stanley Cup in only their second season and this was the second Stanley Cup victory by an American team, the first being the Seattle Metropolitans in the 1917 Stanley Cup Finals. The New York Rangers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in the quarter-finals total-goals series 6–4, the Rangers then defeated the Boston Bruins in the semi-finals total-goals series 5–2 to reach the Final. The Montreal Maroons defeated the Ottawa Senators in the quarter-finals total-goals series 3–1, the Maroons then defeated the Montreal Canadiens in the semi-finals total-goals series 3–2 to reach the Final. The series had to be played in Montreal, as the circus had taken over New Yorks Madison Square Garden, the Rangers lost their goalie Lorne Chabot to eye injury in the second game. Although goaltenders Alex Connell and Hugh McCormick were in the stands, patrick became the oldest man to play in the Stanley Cup finals, a record which remains unsurpassed to this day. For the following matches, the Rangers hired New York Americans goalie Joe Miller, Miller was available to all NHL teams as a backup after the Americans had put him on waivers. The Boston Bruins had claimed him on waivers, but he was available to any NHL team. At the time of the Final, Miller had not played in four weeks, Miller was cut and suffered two black eyes in game five, but hung on for a 2–1 victory. New York Rangers vs. † Laurie Scott played 23 of 44 regular season games and he was sent to the minors before the playoffs, so his name was left off the Stanley Cup. Scott was included on team picture, but not on the Stanley Cup winning picture. Podnieks, Andrew, Hockey Hall of Fame, Stanley Cup,120 years of hockey supremacy

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Nels Stewart
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Robert Nelson Old Poison Stewart was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Maroons, New York Americans and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, nicknamed Old Poison, and with Siebert and veteran stars Clint Benedict, Punch Broadbent and Reg Noble, he would lead the Maroons to the Stanley Cup championship that season. Stewart himself led the league in goal- and point-scoring that year, as the Great Depression deepened, though, the Maroons had increasing financial problems — eventually folding in 1938 — and sold Stewart to the Boston Bruins for cash. His glittering play continued for the Bruins, finishing second in scoring each of his three full seasons with the team, despite being moved back to defense a fair bit. In 1935 he was traded to the New York Americans, with whom he played for most of his five seasons in the league. Stewart starred through his season with 35 points in 46 games at age 36. The season following, in 1939, his foot speed deserted him entirely and he retired thereafter as the NHLs career leading goal scorer, a mark he set in the 1937 season and held until Maurice Richard broke it in 1952. On August 21,1957, he was dead at his summer home in Wasaga Beach, Ontario, apparently of natural causes. Stewart was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1952, in 1998, he was ranked number 51 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players. However, Stewart was the first to gain superstar status via this mode of play, notwithstanding his reputation as a cumbersome skater, Stewart was used as a defenseman by the Maroons in his rookie season before making the transition to centre. For eight playoff games, including four in the 1926 Finals, Stewart served ably on the back end and his skating was often described as “lazy”, “careless” and “lackadaisical”. In general, it appears that Stewart was at worst a middling skater, Stewart’s fame, however, rested squarely on his abilities as a clutch goal scorer around the net. He frequently had multiple-goal games, once marking 4 tallies against the Toronto St. Pats and this was partially due to his exceptionally hard and “heavy” shot, which was known to have injured several goalies due to its high trajectory. Notably, during the 1928 postseason, a Stewart shot caught Rangers goaltender Lorne Chabot in the left eye, Stewart used his shot frequently from close-in, drifting around the crease and waiting patiently to receive a pass before burying it in the net. He had remarkable balance on his skates, as well as tremendous hand-eye coordination and this was demonstrated perfectly in his inaugural Stanley Cup Final against Victoria. In the first game of the series, Stewart was rushing the puck up ice when he was knocked flat by a check from Cougars captain Clem Loughlin. Separated from the puck by five feet and sliding prone across the ice, Stewart nevertheless managed to hook the rubber with his stick, in the second game, Stewart was body checked by two Victoria players at once. Wildly off-balance, he managed to stay on one foot and fire another hard shot past Holmes and this was aided further by his use of a heavy stick with a lie of 10”, almost L-shaped, enabling him to keep the puck close to his feet

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Clint Benedict
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Clinton Stevenson Praying Benny Benedict was a Canadian professional Lacrosse goalie, ice hockey goaltender who played for the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Maroons. He played on four Stanley Cup-winning squads and he was the first goaltender in the National Hockey League to wear a face mask. He led league goaltenders in shutouts seven times over his professional career and he is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. Benedict played for the Ottawa Stars Lacrosse Club, winning the City Championship in 1911 and he later played professionally with the Ottawa Capitals Lacrosse Club earning distinction for his tenacity under fire. This helped him immeasurably in his transition into professional hockey, Benedict was one of the first great goalies in professional hockey and a great innovator in the sport. He was the first goalie to drop to his knees to stop the puck along the ice, at the time and this earned him the nickname Praying Benny. The first rule change the NHL made legalized his playing style, Benedict joined the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey Association in the 1912–13 season. Although the Senators had at the time future Hall of Famer Percy LeSueur as their starting goaltender and he played one more season as backup to LeSueur and took over as starting goaltender in the 1914–15 season. He led the league in Goals Against Average that season and the two seasons to start his career. He played 12 seasons overall for the Senators, after winning three Stanley Cups with the Senators, his career changed in the 1923–24 season. Benedict developed a problem with drinking, which at first was kept secret by the Senators, Benedict occasionally played for the Senators while under the effects. In the playoffs, Benedict and the Senators played poorly and were quickly eliminated, management withheld some of his salary for his behaviour. Benedict sued the team in return and the Senators countersued, revealing in court documents the extent of Benedicts behaviour, once the Ottawa papers found out about the court case, the secret was out. The two sides quickly settled to minimize the publicity, Benedicts career with the Senators was finished. On October 20,1924, Benedict was traded along with Punch Broadbent to the expansion Montreal Maroons and it was a new lease on life for Benedict who played for six seasons with the Maroons. In 1926, he won another Stanley Cup with the Maroons, on January 7,1930, he was hit by a shot from Howie Morenz in the face, breaking the bridge of his nose. Benedict was out of action for six weeks and he returned on February 20,1930 against the New York Americans wearing the mask. He played with a mask for five games in total and according to Douglas Hunter and his last game wearing a mask was on March 4,1930 when he got hit in the face during a goal-mouth scramble

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Lorne Chabot
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Lorne Chabotsky Chabot was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Chabot played in the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1937 and he was a member of two Stanley Cup championship teams, the New York Rangers in 1928, and the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1932. Chabot played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Montreal Maroons, Chabot won the Vezina Trophy in 1934-35 for being the leagues best goaltender. During his stint with the Rangers, he was credited as Lorne Chabotsky. Chabot was also the goalie who was injured during the 1928 playoffs, Chabot played in the two longest games in NHL history, losing the longest in 1935-36 and winning the second longest in 1932-33. He was the first hockey player to appear on the cover of Time Magazine, years after his retirement, he suffered from severe arthritis and was bedridden. He developed Brights Disease and after a bout with it, he died. In 1998, he was ranked number 84 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players and he was the only player on the list then eligible for the Hockey Hall of Fame who has not been elected to it. In the book 100 Ranger Greats by Russ Cohen, John Halligan and Adam Raider, in The Hockey News Collectors Edition The Top 100 Players of All-Time Lorne Chabot was rated as the 20th best goaltender. He is the only goalie in the top 20 not inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 1998, he was ranked number 84 on The Hockey News list of the 100 Greatest Hockey Players, New York, Dodd, Mead & Company. Notes Lorne Chabots biography at Legends of Hockey Lorne Chabots career statistics at The Internet Hockey Database

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Eddie Gerard
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Edward George Gerard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada he played professionally for 10 seasons for the hometown Ottawa Senators and was member of several Stanley Cup-winning teams before retiring as a player in 1923. He continued in hockey afterward as a coach until 1935, winning a further Stanley Cup in 1926 and he was regarded as one of the most prominent athletes in Ottawa, active in several sports and was a halfback for the Ottawa Rough Riders football club from 1909 to 1913. When the Hockey Hall of Fame was founded in 1945, Gerard was one of the original 12 players inducted and his father was of Scottish descent. He married Lillian Mackenzie and had two daughters and he worked as a printer and was employed by the Canadian Government Printing Bureau. He moved to the survey in 1912, and at the time of his death was chief engineering clerk for the survey. In November 1913, while still a player, Gerard was approached by several teams in regards to turning professional. He initially had an offer from the Montreal Canadiens of $1,000 for, early in the month the Ottawa Senators offered him a contract of $1,500 for two seasons, which would have made him one of the highest paid players in hockey. He also received an offer from the Sydney Hockey Club from the Maritime Hockey League promised $1,600 for the season, Gerard joined the professional ranks in 1913–14 with the Ottawa Senators, after playing in senior amateur play since 1907 with various Ottawa teams. He had also played football, and gave that up to play with the Senators. One of the highest regarded athletes in Ottawa, he signed with the Senators when they assured him he would be able to keep his government job. When he did sign, he was given a bonus of C$400, in 1915, he was named to the NHA All-Stars which went on a tour in British Columbia to play PCHA teams. Gerard was player-coach of the Senators from 1916 until 1918 and he later served as captain of the Senators from 1919 to 1923. He retired after the 1922–23 season due to a growth, although benign, in his throat, Gerard won four Stanley Cups during his playing career. Three came as a member of the Ottawa Senators and one with the Toronto St. Pats, in game five of the 1921 Stanley Cup Finals, Gerard had six penalties, one of which was a match penalty near the end of the game. Gerard was attending the 1922 Stanley Cup Final, held that year in Toronto when Harry Cameron, vancouver Millionaires Manager Lester Patrick gave permission to Toronto to use Gerard to replace their injured player. Toronto won the game and the series and it was his only game with the St. Pats. After retiring as a player he was the Manager-Coach of the Montreal Maroons from 1924–25 season to 1928–29 season and he resigned from the Maroons, where he never had a formal contract, on July 8,1929

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Lester Patrick
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Along with his brother Frank Patrick and father Joseph Patrick, he founded the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and helped develop several rules for the game of hockey. Patrick won six Stanley Cups as a player, coach and manager, the son of a wealthy lumberman, Patrick was a great rover and defenceman who first came to prominence in 1900 when he played for McGill University. In 1904 he was the star for the Brandon team in the Northwestern and Manitoba Hockey Leagues, with Patrick at cover point, Brandon challenged the Ottawa Senators for the Stanley Cup in that season, but were defeated in the two-game, total-goal series. He had greater success with the famed Montreal Wanderers in the 1906 and 1907 seasons, scoring 41 goals as a rushing defenceman in just 28 scheduled games while serving as captain of the Redbands, Patrick led them to the Stanley Cup in both seasons. By 1910 the entire Patrick family would affect the Nelson, British Columbia Ladies Hockey Club, sisters Myrtle, Cynda and Dora Patrick were all involved with the club. In 1911 the Nelson Ladies Club was coached by Lester, the Patricks long had western ties. Patrick invented 22 new rules that remain in the NHL rulebook to this day and he introduced the blue line, the forward pass, and the playoff system, a change adopted by other leagues and sports around the world. After a suggestion by his father Joe, he began using numbers on players sweaters, a new rule allowed the puck to be kicked everywhere but into the net, and allowed goaltenders to fall to the ice to make a save. He was responsible for crediting assists when a goal was scored and its no wonder he was later called the Brains of Modern Hockey. Lester himself was the captain and star of the Victoria Aristocrats, the franchise — plagued by small crowds — was moved to Spokane, Washington and became the Spokane Canaries in 1916, and Patrick achieved his fourth and final First Team All-Star berth. After that season the Canaries were disbanded, and Patrick joined the Stanley Cup champion Seattle Metropolitans, the Aristocrats were revived in 1918 as the Victoria Cougars, and Patrick took over as player-manager. Despite playing in only half the games, he was named to the Second All-Star team once more before retiring as a player after the 1922 season. Patrick is famous for an incident which occurred during the Stanley Cup finals of 1928 and this is a record for the oldest goalie to play in the Stanley Cup Finals that still stands today. At the time it was not common for teams to have a backup goaltender, Patrick saved 18 to 19 shots while allowing one goal in helping the Rangers to an overtime victory. For the next three games, the league gave permission for the Rangers to use Joe Miller from the New York Americans in goal, the Rangers went on to win the Stanley Cup. Patrick also guided the Rangers to another championship in 1933, Patrick finally retired as general manager in 1946, but stayed on as vice president of Madison Square Garden, finally exiting in 1950. Patrick donated a trophy to the Western Hockey League, the Lester Patrick Cup, to go to the champions of that league. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947, suffering from cancer, Lester died at his Victoria home after a heart attack on June 1,1960, at the age of 76

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Bill Cook
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A prolific scorer, Cook led the WCHL in goals twice and the NHL three times. He was named an all-star seven times between the two leagues, known as The Original Ranger, Cook was the first captain of the New York Rangers, scored the first goal in franchise history and led the team to two Stanley Cup championships. Turning to coaching following his career, Cook led the Cleveland Barons to two Calder Cup championships and the Minneapolis Millers to a United States Hockey League championship. He coached the New York Rangers during the 1951–52 NHL season until his retirement in 1953, Cook was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1952 and Canadas Sports Hall of Fame in 1975. Cook was born on October 9,1895, in Brantford and he was a middle child of a large family, and the eldest of three sons, preceding his brothers Frederick and Alexander. The family moved to Kingston, Ontario, where he learned to skate on the Rideau Canal and he joined the Kingston Frontenacs junior hockey team in 1913 and played for two seasons before his career was interrupted by the First World War. He volunteered to join the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915, Cook participated in several engagements, including at Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Hill 70. He then fought into 1919 in Siberia as part of the intervention in the Russian Civil War. Upon his return from the war, Cook rejoined the Frontenacs for one season before joining the Sault Ste and he led the Northern Ontario Hockey Association in both goals,12, and points,19, while the Greyhounds won the NOHA championship. He won the title again in 1921–22 with 20 goals and 28 points. Spurning offers from National Hockey League teams to turn professional in the league, Cook moved to Saskatchewan. The Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League attempted to recruit him for the 1922–23 season, instead, he joined the Saskatoon Crescents. He recorded 25 points in 30 games in his first professional season, returning to Saskatoon in 1923–24, Cook led the WCHL with 26 goals and 40 points. He was named the right wing for the first of three consecutive seasons. He scored 22 goals in 1924–25, the WCHL rebranded itself the Western Hockey League and the Crescents became the Sheiks in 1925–26. Cook again led in goals and points with 31 and 44 respectively, and had become known as the best right wing in hockey. The WHL had run into difficulty in its final seasons. The Montreal Maroons intended to sign both Cook and his brother Bun to join their team for the 1926–27 NHL season

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Frank Calder
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Frank Sellick Calder was an ice hockey executive, a journalist and athlete. He is most notable for serving as the first president of the National Hockey League from 1917 until his death in 1943. He was the last president of the NHLs predecessor league, the National Hockey Association and was instrumental in the transition from the NHA to the NHL, a transition made to expel a franchise owner. He presided over the expansion of the NHL from Canada into the United States while at the same time fending off of rivals to the NHLs status as the ice hockey league. Frank Calder was born to Scottish parents in Bristol, England on November 17,1877, Calder participated in many English sports as a youth, including rugby, cricket, handball, golf, and soccer. As a young man, he immigrated to Canada and became a teacher at a private school, before leaving the United Kingdom, he flipped a coin to decide whether he should immigrate to Canada or to the United States. He married a teacher, Amelia Cole, and they had three sons and one daughter. Calder worked as an editor at the Montreal Witness. From there, he moved to the Montreal Herald and Daily Telegraph and he maintained his interest in sports, creating the Montreal School Rugby League. He was elected a member of the committee of the PQFA in 1911 and 1912. Earlier he was a referee and had refereed the game between the Montreal All-Stars and the touring Corinthians from England in 1906, on November 15,1914, Calder was appointed secretary-treasurer of the National Hockey Association. He served as secretary-treasurer until 1917 when Frank Robinson resigned as president of the NHA, in 1917, the NHAs owners decided to drop Eddie Livingstones Toronto Blueshirts franchise and took his players. The NHAs president, Frank Robinson, seeing he was as powerless as his predecessor Emmett Quinn was, Calder, the league secretary, saw opportunity in the situation. He decided that the NHA owners allied against Eddie Livingstone needed someone to represent them and he arranged meetings between the NHAs owners to figure out how to get rid of Livingstone. They decided to form a new league, the National Hockey League, Calder was elected president of the new league which was officially established on November 26,1917. Calder wielded his power as president with authority, one example of this authority occurred during the Hamilton Tigers strike in 1925. Rather than negotiate with the players, he suspended and fined them each $200, Calder was adamant that minorities would not be restricted in the NHL. Only one attempt to remove Calder as president of the NHL was made and this was in 1932–33 when the owner of the Chicago Black Hawks, Frederic McLaughlin, circulated a letter to the NHL board of governors to remove him

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Montreal Forum
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Montreal Forum was an indoor arena located facing Cabot Square in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Called the most storied building in history by Sporting News, it was the home of the National Hockey Leagues Montreal Maroons from 1924 to 1938. The Forum was built by the Canadian Arena Company in 159 days, located at the northeast corner of Atwater and Ste-Catherine West, the building was historically significant as it was home to 24 Stanley Cup championships. It was also home to the Montreal Roadrunners and Montreal Junior Canadiens, the Forum opened on November 29,1924, at a total cost of C$1,500,000 with an original seating capacity of 9,300. It underwent two renovations, in 1949 and 1968, when the Forum closed in 1996 it had a capacity of 17,959, which included approximately 1,600 in standing room. A new centre-hung scoreclock, designed by Daktronics, was installed in the mid-1980s, a Rainforest Cafe was supposed to open, but never got built since the building closed. The idea to build the Forum in 1923 is credited to Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty, at the suggestion of Senator Donat Raymond, William Northey developed a plan for a 12,500 seat capacity rink. Plans were scaled back for financial reasons to a rink of 9,300 seats, even at the reduced size, the rink could not immediately find financing. The Forum would eventually be financed by H. L. Timmins, the site selected was the site of a roller skating rink named the Forum, and the name was kept. The site had previously been the site of an ice hockey rink, used by Frank and Lester Patrick, Art Ross. The Quebec Junior Hockey League played on Monday nights, the Bank League on Tuesdays, the Montreal Forum hosted Memorial Cup games in 1950,1968,1969,1970,1973 &1976, with the Junior Canadiens winning on home ice in 1970. In 1972, the Forum hosted game one of the famous Summit Series between Team Canada and the USSR, the USSR won the game 7-3, the 1980 NHL Entry Draft was hosted at the Forum. It would mark the first time that an NHL Arena hosted the event, only two visiting teams have ever won the Stanley Cup on Forum ice, the New York Rangers did so in 1928, defeating the Maroons, while the Calgary Flames defeated the Canadiens in 1989. On March 11,1996, the Montreal Canadiens played their last game at the Montreal Forum, the game was televised on TSN and TQS in Canada, and on ESPN2 in the United States. The Stars Guy Carbonneau, who had captained the Canadiens from 1989 to 1994, after the game, many previous hockey greats were presented to the crowd, most notably Maurice Richard, who received a sixteen-minute standing ovation from the crowd as he broke down in tears. The flaming torch was passed on to each of the former Canadiens captains, the next day, a parade was organized in which the torch was carried down the route to the Molson Centre. Their first game at the new venue was against the New York Rangers, the Forum also hosted other sports, including indoor soccer, boxing, lacrosse and tennis. The Forum was a site of five events in the 1976 Summer Olympics, gymnastics, handball, basketball, volleyball, the gymnastics event included Nadia Comanecis famous perfect 10, the first in Olympic history

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1989 Stanley Cup Playoffs
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The 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League began on April 5, after the conclusion of the 1988–89 NHL season. This was the year that all of the Division Semifinals began with teams playing the first four games in a span of five days. The playoffs concluded on May 25 with the champion Calgary Flames defeating the Montreal Canadiens 4–2 to win the Stanley Cup Final series four games to two, the 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs featured two Canadian hockey teams, the Montreal Canadiens and the Calgary Flames. Montreal finished the season with 115 points, only two behind the league leader Calgary. They had last faced each other in 1986, with Montreal winning in five games, Calgary was only the second opposing team in NHL history to win a Stanley Cup at the Montreal Forum and the first to do so against the Canadiens. Flames defenceman Al MacInnis won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, while Lanny McDonald, Flames co-owner Sonia Scurfield became the first Canadian woman to have her name inscribed on the Stanley Cup. Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings met the defending champion Oilers in the first round, Gretzky and the Kings defeated the defending Stanley Cup champions after falling behind 3 games to 1. In the second round the Kings were swept by the eventual champion Calgary Flames in four games, one round later Mario Lemieux equaled four NHL-records by scoring five goals and eight points in a 10–7 Pittsburgh win in Game five of the Patrick Division Finals. Hextall received a 12-game suspension at the start of the 1989–90 NHL season for his actions, former Flyers head coach Mike Keenan led Chicago to the Campbell Conference finals in his first year behind the bench. The Blackhawks had the fewest points of any team this season yet they upset first place Detroit. This was the first of three series between these two teams that ended in overtime of game seven. The seventh game went into overtime with both teams having great chances to win the game, the best of these chances was a breakaway for Canucks captain Stan Smyl who was stopped by Calgary goaltender Mike Vernon. Joel Otto scored the winner at 19,21 of the first overtime after Jim Peplinski banked it in off Ottos skate to send the Flames into the Smythe Division Final. In Game five, Mario Lemieux, listed as questionable before the due to his neck, tied four NHL playoff records for goals in one period, goals in a game, points in a game. This was the second and most recent series between two teams, with the only previous meeting being the 1986 Stanley Cup Finals where Montreal defeated Calgary in five games. This was the Flames second appearance in the Finals, while Montreal was making their appearance in the Finals. Calgary was trying to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history, the Stanley Cup Final was decided between the two teams with the best records of the 1988–89 NHL regular season. Co-captain Lanny McDonald scored the second Flames goal in game six and this turned out to be the last goal in his Hockey Hall of Fame career, as he retired during the following off-season

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Red Dutton
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Norman Alexander Mervyn, Red Dutton CM was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive. He played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League, a rugged and physical defenceman, Dutton often led his team in penalty minutes, won the WCHL championship in 1924 as a member of the Tigers and was twice named a WCHL All-Star. Dutton coached and managed the Americans and later purchased the team before suspending operations in 1942 due to World War II and he served as a Stanley Cup trustee for 37 years but otherwise limited his involvement with the NHL following the Americans demise. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958 and he was invested as a member of the Order of Canada in 1981 and is honoured by both the Manitoba Hockey and Alberta Sports Halls of Fame. He was posthumously awarded the Lester Patrick Trophy in 1993 in recognition of his contributions to the game of hockey in the United States, Dutton was born in Russell, Manitoba on July 23,1897. His father, Bill, was a contractor who helped build Canadas transcontinental railway system. He had at least two brothers, and a sister. His given name was Norman Alexander Dutton, but his names were quickly ignored. A family friend of the Duttons refused to call him Norman as the name had a negative connotation for her, so she called him Mervyn. His friends called him Red after the colour of his hair, Dutton attended school at St. Johns College in Winnipeg. He left school in 1915 to volunteer with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in World War I and he lied about his birth date on his CEF enlistment papers as he was not yet 18, and served for four years. Dutton fought in the Battle of Vimy Ridge in 1917 where he suffered a wound to his leg serious enough that doctors pressed for amputation. Dutton refused and spent the following 18 months working to full use of his leg. He played hockey almost constantly to regain strength, at one point playing in seven different Winnipeg leagues at the same time, following the war, Dutton sought to build his own contracting business. However, a depression in 1920 forced its closure. He then worked in a plant in Winnipeg that also ceased operations. Penniless, with only his pride preventing him from asking his father for help, Dutton was offered $2,500 to play in the Alberta city. Two seasons later, in 1923–24, Dutton and the Tigers won the WCHL championship and he assisted on the championship winning goal in a 2–0 victory over the Regina Capitals by carrying the puck the length of the ice before passing to Cully Wilson who scored

National Hockey League
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Headquartered in New York City, the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world, and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. The Stanley Cup, the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, is awarded annually to the playoff champion at the end of each season. At its

Ice hockey
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Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponents net to score points. Ice hockey teams usually consist of six each, one goaltender. A fast-paced, physical sport, ice hockey is most popular in areas of North America, Ice hockey i

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The San Jose Sharks (teal) attempt to prevent the Anaheim Ducks (white) from scoring a goal during the 2007–08 NHL season.

Montreal Canadiens
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The Montreal Canadiens are a professional ice hockey team based in Montreal, Quebec. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the clubs official name is le Club de hockey Canadien. The team is referred to in English and French as the Habs. French nicknames for the team include Les Canadiens,

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Game between the Canadiens and the New York Rangers in 1962.

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Montreal Canadiens Canadiens de Montréal

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The Bell Centre has been the Canadiens' home stadium since 1996. The arena is here seen in 2008, with banners celebrating the Montreal Canadiens centennial.

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Maurice 'The Rocket' Richard is the Canadiens' all-time leader in goals. The trophy awarded annually to the NHL's leading goal scorer is named in honour of Richard.

Howie Morenz
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Howard William Howie Morenz was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Beginning in 1923, he played centre for three National Hockey League teams, the Montreal Canadiens, the Chicago Black Hawks, and the New York Rangers. Before joining the NHL, Morenz excelled in the junior Ontario Hockey Association, where his team played for the Memorial Cup

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Howie Morenz

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Morenz while playing junior ice hockey

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Morenz posing for a photo after the Canadiens won the 1930 Stanley Cup

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After breaking his leg, Morenz was unable to move from his hospital bed.

Boston Bruins
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The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team has been in existence since 1924, and is the leagues third-oldest team and is the oldest in the United States. It is also an Original Six franchise, along wi

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Defenseman Eddie Shore was the team's first great star, making his debut in 1926.

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Boston Bruins

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Orr is tripped and flies through the air after scoring "The Goal" in overtime to win the 1970 Stanley Cup Finals. The image is widely considered to be one of the most famous in hockey history.

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Ray Bourque, shown in 1981 and before switching to his familiar No. 77, led the Bruins to two Stanley Cup Finals appearances in 1988 and 1990.

1928 Stanley Cup Final
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The 1928 Stanley Cup Finals was a NHL championship series was played by the New York Rangers and the Montreal Maroons. It was the first appearance by the Rangers in the Finals and was their first victory of the Stanley Cup in only their second season and this was the second Stanley Cup victory by an American team, the first being the Seattle Metrop

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New York Rangers 1928 Stanley Cup champions

New York Rangers
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The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City. They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team plays its home games at Madison Square Garden, located in the borough of Manhattan. The Rangers are one of three NHL franchises in the New York metropolitan a

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Tex Rickard founded the Rangers in 1926.

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New York Rangers

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Wayne Gretzky as a Ranger in 1997

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Baseball

List of NHL seasons
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This is a list of seasons of the National Hockey League, a professional ice hockey league, since its inception in 1917. The list also includes the seasons of the National Hockey Association, the organization of the NHL. Only two franchises, Montreal and Toronto, still exist from the founding of the league, the Quebec Bulldogs, which suspended after

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The Montreal Canadiens host the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1938

Stanley Cup
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The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoff winner. The first Cup was awarded in 1893 to Montreal HC, and subsequent winners from 1893 to 1914 were determined by challenge games, Professional teams first became eligible to challenge for the Stanley Cup in 1906. After a series of mergers and fold

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Stanley Cup

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The first Stanley Cup Champions: The Montreal Hockey Club (affiliated with the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association)

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The Lord Stanley of Preston

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The first Stanley Cup

United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean,

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Native Americans meeting with Europeans, 1764

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Flag

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The signing of the Mayflower Compact, 1620.

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The Declaration of Independence: the Committee of Five presenting their draft to the Second Continental Congress in 1776

National Hockey Association
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The National Hockey Association, officially the National Hockey Association of Canada Limited, was a professional ice hockey organization with teams in Ontario and Quebec, Canada. It is the predecessor to todays National Hockey League. Founded in 1909 by Ambrose OBrien, the NHA introduced six-man hockey by removing the rover position in 1911, durin

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O'Brien Cup, the championship trophy of the NHA. The NHL would continue using it after 1917.

Prince of Wales Trophy
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The current holder of the Prince of Wales Trophy are the Pittsburgh Penguins after winning the 2016 Eastern Conference Final. The Prince of Wales Trophy was first announced in December 1925, the trophy, sponsored by the Prince of Wales and bearing the royal coat of arms, cost $2,500, and was to be in the possession of the league champion. It was or

Madison Square Garden
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Madison Square Garden, often called MSG or simply The Garden, is a multi-purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Located in Midtown Manhattan between 7th and 8th Avenues from 31st to 33rd Streets, it is situated atop Pennsylvania Station. The Garden is used for basketball and ice hockey, as well as boxing, concerts, ice show

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The Eighth Avenue facade of Madison Square Garden in August 2009

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A basketball game at Madison Square Garden circa 1968

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Madison Square Garden's upper bowl concourse, seen in January 2014 during a Rangers game.

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The completely transformed Madison Square Garden in January 2014 (with a new HD scoreboard), as the New York Rangers play against the St. Louis Blues.

Pete Muldoon
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Muldoon was the Black Hawks first head coach. Muldoon was born in St. Marys, Ontario, as Linton Muldoon Treacy and he played hockey in the OHA in the 1900s before moving to the Pacific coast in order to pursue a boxing career. He changed his name to Pete Muldoon because the pursuit of a sports career was discouraged in Ontario at the time. Muldoon

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Muldoon as an assistant trainer with the 1912 New Westminster Royals

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Muldoon with the Seattle Metropolitans.

Hugh Lehman
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Frederick Hugh Old Eagle Eyes Lehman was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender. He started his ice hockey playing for the Pembroke Lumber Kings. In 1911, Lehman joined the New Westminster Royals, playing for the Royals for three seasons, before joining the Vancouver Millionaires in 1914, Lehman played half of his 22-year professional career

Barney Stanley
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He was the second head coach of the Chicago Black Hawks of the National Hockey League, appearing as a player in one game for the team. He won the Stanley Cup with the Millionaires in 1915 and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1963, Stanley was born in Paisley, Ontario, the son of a dairy farmer. He moved west to Medicine Hat, Alberta at

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Stanley as a member of the Calgary Tigers

Hooley Smith
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Reginald Joseph Hooley Smith was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons, Boston Bruins and New York Americans. He won the Stanley Cup twice, with Ottawa and Montreal and he is possibly the first National Hockey League player to wear a helmet. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Smith played amateur hoc

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Hooley Smith

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Smith with the Toronto Granites in the 1921–22 season.

Punch Broadbent
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Harold Lawton Harry Punch Broadbent was a Canadian ice hockey player. Broadbent played for the Ottawa Senators, Montreal Maroons and the New York Americans in the National Hockey Association and he is generally regarded as one of the first true power forwards in NHL history. Broadbent married Leda Fitzimmons and had one daughter, Sally Ann Broadben

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Punch Broadbent

Eddie Shore
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On January 1,2017, in a ceremony prior to the Centennial Classic, Shore was part of the first group of players to be named one of the 100 Greatest NHL Players in history. Shore won the Hart Trophy as the NHLs most valuable player four times, a bruiser known for his violence, Shore set a then-NHL record for 165 penalty minutes in his second season.

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Shore with the Bruins, 1939.

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Shore with the Melville Millionaires.

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Ace Bailey (left) shakes the hand of Eddie Shore at the benefit All-Star Game held in honour of Bailey.

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Eddie Shore in Springfield.

Ottawa Senators (original)
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The Ottawa Senators were a professional, ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Canada which existed from 1883 to 1954. The club was the first hockey club in Ontario, a member of the National Hockey League. The club, which was officially the Ottawa Hockey Club, was known by nicknames, including the Generals in the 1890s, the Silver Seven from 1903 to 190

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The 1901 club, CAHL (left trophy) and Ottawa (right shield) champions. The club wore the same 'O' logo as the Ottawa Football Club that season.

Toronto Maple Leafs
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are a professional ice hockey team based in Toronto, Ontario. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League, the team is one of the Original Six league members. They are owned by Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, Ltd. and are represented by Chairman Larry Tanenbaum, in Feb

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Created by Charles Pachter, the Hockey Knights in Canada Leafs mural was installed in 1984 on the southbound side of College subway station, the nearest station to Maple Leaf Gardens, then the Maple Leafs' home arena (the Canadiens' one is installed on the northbound side of the same station).

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Author Roch Carrier as a ten-year-old boy (wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs sweater) and presumably the inspiration of his children's book The Hockey Sweater

New York Americans
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The New York Americans, colloquially known as the Amerks, were a professional ice hockey team based in New York City, New York from 1925 to 1942. They were the expansion team in the history of the National Hockey League. The team never won the Stanley Cup, but reached the semifinals twice. While it was the first team in New York City, it was eclips

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The 1925-26 New York Americans

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New York Americans

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Team jersey, Hockey Hall of Fame

Pittsburgh Pirates (NHL)
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The Pittsburgh Pirates were an American professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League, based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1925–26 to 1929–30. The nickname comes from the team also based in the city. For the 1930–31 season, the moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Pirates are traced back to the Pittsburgh Yellow Jack

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Tunnels

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Pittsburgh Pirates

Detroit Red Wings
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The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League and are one of the Original Six teams of the league, founded in 1926, the team was known as the Detroit Cougars from then until 1930. For the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seaso

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Interior of the Joe Louis Arena, where the Red Wings have played at home since 1979, when they left the Detroit Olympia.

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Detroit Red Wings

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Red Wings McDonnell Douglas DC-9-51 in 2002

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Nicklas Lidstrom, the former captain of the Wings

Chicago Blackhawks
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The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League and they have won six Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926. The Blackhawks are one of the Original Six NHL teams along with the Detroit Red Wings, Mo

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Ron Murphy and Eric Nesterenko battle in front of the Toronto net

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Chicago Blackhawks

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The United Center in 2006.

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Jonathan Toews, at age 20, became the third youngest captain in team history in 2008.

1928 Stanley Cup Finals
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The 1928 Stanley Cup Finals was a NHL championship series was played by the New York Rangers and the Montreal Maroons. It was the first appearance by the Rangers in the Finals and was their first victory of the Stanley Cup in only their second season and this was the second Stanley Cup victory by an American team, the first being the Seattle Metrop

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New York Rangers 1928 Stanley Cup champions

Nels Stewart
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Robert Nelson Old Poison Stewart was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Montreal Maroons, New York Americans and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League. He is an Honoured Member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, nicknamed Old Poison, and with Siebert and veteran stars Clint Benedict, Punch Broadbent and Reg Noble, he would

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Nels Stewart in a Montreal Maroons uniform

Clint Benedict
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Clinton Stevenson Praying Benny Benedict was a Canadian professional Lacrosse goalie, ice hockey goaltender who played for the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Maroons. He played on four Stanley Cup-winning squads and he was the first goaltender in the National Hockey League to wear a face mask. He led league goaltenders in shutouts seven times ove

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Clint Benedict

Lorne Chabot
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Lorne Chabotsky Chabot was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. Chabot played in the National Hockey League from 1926 to 1937 and he was a member of two Stanley Cup championship teams, the New York Rangers in 1928, and the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1932. Chabot played for the New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Bla

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Lorne Chabot

Eddie Gerard
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Edward George Gerard was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada he played professionally for 10 seasons for the hometown Ottawa Senators and was member of several Stanley Cup-winning teams before retiring as a player in 1923. He continued in hockey afterward as a coach until 1935, winning a further Stan

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Eddie Gerard

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The Ottawa Senators during the 1914–15 NHA season. Gerard is in the front row, far left.

Lester Patrick
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Along with his brother Frank Patrick and father Joseph Patrick, he founded the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and helped develop several rules for the game of hockey. Patrick won six Stanley Cups as a player, coach and manager, the son of a wealthy lumberman, Patrick was a great rover and defenceman who first came to prominence in 1900 when he pl

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Lester Patrick

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Lester Patrick serving as goaltender

Bill Cook
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A prolific scorer, Cook led the WCHL in goals twice and the NHL three times. He was named an all-star seven times between the two leagues, known as The Original Ranger, Cook was the first captain of the New York Rangers, scored the first goal in franchise history and led the team to two Stanley Cup championships. Turning to coaching following his c

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Bill Cook

Frank Calder
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Frank Sellick Calder was an ice hockey executive, a journalist and athlete. He is most notable for serving as the first president of the National Hockey League from 1917 until his death in 1943. He was the last president of the NHLs predecessor league, the National Hockey Association and was instrumental in the transition from the NHA to the NHL, a

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Frank Calder

Montreal Forum
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Montreal Forum was an indoor arena located facing Cabot Square in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Called the most storied building in history by Sporting News, it was the home of the National Hockey Leagues Montreal Maroons from 1924 to 1938. The Forum was built by the Canadian Arena Company in 159 days, located at the northeast corner of Atwater and Ste

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The Montreal Forum in 2011

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The Montreal Forum under construction in 1924.

1989 Stanley Cup Playoffs
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The 1989 Stanley Cup playoffs, the championship of the National Hockey League began on April 5, after the conclusion of the 1988–89 NHL season. This was the year that all of the Division Semifinals began with teams playing the first four games in a span of five days. The playoffs concluded on May 25 with the champion Calgary Flames defeating the Mo

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The Stanley Cup

Red Dutton
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Norman Alexander Mervyn, Red Dutton CM was a Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive. He played for the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League, a rugged and physical defenceman, Dutton often led his team in penalty minutes, won the WCHL championship in 1924 as a member of the Tigers and was twice named a WCHL All-Star. Dutton co